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Page 16 - PLAINDKALER HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22.1985 Tune in Tomorrow The soap opera scene By Jon-Michael Reed NEW YORK - She's not yet 30, but Susan Scannell has already played a gamut of soap-opera vix­ ens. And she'll soon be at it again, this time on "Ryan's Hope." She made her TV debut in a minor role on "One Life to Live." For a year after that brief run, she co-starred on the Christian Broad­ cast Network's serial "Another Life," playing an aspiring singer who lied and cheated behind her husband's back and ultimately dumped him. She found her real- life husband, Chris Roland, by simply looking up from her scripts; Chris played her Screen husband. Sue's first show-biz lo,ve, coin- cidentally, was music. Before her soap career, she was a member of a French rock group called Fan- tasm, "a sort of female version of The Village People," Sue ex­ plains. "Each girl was a different fantasy. One was a leather-biker type; another was a Marilyn Monroe clone. I was the innocent one in white. I left the group when it became too T&A." In yet another life-imitates-soap coincidence, when Sue left "Life" and moved from Virginia to New York to portray the reluctantly devious* Kristen Carter on "Search For Tomorrow," Chris continued working at the CBN soap. The couple had strengthen­ ed their born-again Christian beliefs because of their "Life" ex­ perience. And the weekend com­ mutes to be together didn't faze them, or, as Sue says, "Trust begets trust, and we decided to concentrate on our careers for the next few years. After that, we'll consider raising a family. I want lots of children, but I won't be a surrogate mother of children rais­ ed by a nanny." After more than a year on "Search," Sue found her character dwindling in story im­ portance. A steady stream of entering and exiting writers had lost the concept of Sue's character. One day she confronted the latest producer. "My whole story is taking a boat to China. Do I have a ticket?" Sue asked. "Yes," replied the producer, "and it isn't first class." Sue briefly rejoined Chris and did a pilot for a situation comedy produced by the couple's com­ pany, Obadiah ("Worker of God") FIRST INSTITUTE OF TRAVEL! PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL INDUSTRY TRAINING CLASSES START JUNE 10 •15 week course •Day & evening classes •Over 170 hours of in-depth training •Hands on computer facilities Apo'ovrd by (he Illinois stile Bond ol Cduci lion Owned and openled by one ol the Pie mier Retail Travel Ajencies in Illinois 31 E. Crystal Lake Ave. Crystal Lake, IL 60014 (815)459-3500 WESTERN SERVICE CO. HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING WONDER LAKE, ILL (815)728-1053 •SALES 'SERVICE •INSTU1A1KM Air Conditioning Productions. Although it concern­ ed an ex-hooker working in an employment agency, the show w a s " r e l e v a n t b u t n o t evangelical," according to Sue, and it found support at the CBN cable network. Then the couple moved to Hollywood, and, last winter, Sue was cast as another manipulative wench, Nicole, who conned wealthy Jeff Colby into believing they had been married during a drunken binge. The show was ABC's enormously successful nighttime serial "Dynasty," and Sue was touted as an "overnight success" and "the next Morgan Fairchild." Fortunately (or unfortunately) Sue's importance to the plot once again gradually .dwindled. The writers never seemed quite able to grasp and utilize her remarkable ability to play a sinner with t r e m e n d o u s p a t h o s a n d vulnerability. Sue doesn't let herself off the hook for failing to catch fire in what could have been a star- making turn: "I am, by nature, an impatient person. I don't know how to pussyfoot and side-step and coddlc Dyfla le and play games. Doing tasty' was a great experience, and I certainly don't want to imply that I was treated poorly. I simply didn't take advantage of certain opportunities. "I'm a rather straight-laced lady, despite the characters I've played," says the Lexington, Kentucky-born redhead. "I'll argue when I think a love scene doesn't need to be done under the sheets with shoulders bared. I'll compromise, but only to a point. I wouldn't have done 'Splash,' for example, even if they used a body- double. The mere association with a nude body as a commodity unto itself is offensive to me. I want people to remember me and not my wardrobe or lack of it. That belief led to a certain disenchant­ ment with Hollywood. I didn't find my soul there, and I wasn't really happy. I can't be content 'cooling out,' lying in the sun between workdays. I burn too easily, for one thing," Sue says with a laugh. "So, when I left 'Dynasty' and was offered work in California daytime soaps, I chose instead to return to Manhattan for this new role." She's referring to "Ryan's Hope," in which she'lh play "a beautiful but mysterious French woman, Nicole. More than that, I cannot say," says Sue. "They've sworn me to secrecy, but it's pro­ bably the most interesting character I've ever played. I'll make my debut during the shot-in- France location scenes. And, hopefully, it's such a startling character debut that the audience won't know for quite a while that it's Sue Scannell who's playing the part." Sue is contracted to "Ryan's" for a year. Husband Chi|s is stay­ ing in Hollywood, "guesting on nighttime series like 'Double Dare' and a lot of other butch-spy shows," says Sue, who, in addition to "Ryan's," will scour for nightclub engagements with her musical act. She recently debuted a song she wrote, "A Touch of Tenderness," on The Merv Griffin Show and hopes to land a recor­ ding deal. Tune in tomorrow to see if Nicole possesses half as much tenacity and clear-headed con­ fidence as Susan Scannell. 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